The article comes from WeChat public account: Vistopia (ID: kanlixiang2019) , author: Yuwen north, from the title figure: the movie “little women”
After winning four awards in Parasite, everything seems to have changed, but some things are still terribly stubborn.
For example, in almost every year’s media reports, there is always one complaint, and this year’s Oscar nomination for best director has no women.
Oscar has held 92 sessions with only 5 years exception. In other words, 87 times, the best directors are all men’s arena. Only in the distant 2009, Catherine Bigelow really won back the little gold man with “Bomb Smasher”.
“The Hurt Removal Force”, director Bigelow
This year’s Oscar, Little Lady may have promised.
It won six important nominations, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, but director Greta Gweig was not included in the competition for Best Director.
Many viewers are also dissatisfied with this, and many voices believe that Greta’s performance this year can completely replace the director of “The Clown”, Todd Phillips.
Admittedly, director awards are different from otherAwards. It is more a comprehensive affirmation of film creators, co-ordinators, and those who have overall control.
Sadly, this is an endless loop. In Hollywood, there are far fewer women than men who have the opportunity to get a director, let alone how many teenage directors can raise enough funds to make a film that is enough to enter the college’s field of vision.
Greta in the set of “Little Women”
The subtle thing is that the movie “Little Woman” is exactly the story of female creators analyzing female creators-how the pen in the hands of a female author is influenced by the concept of the times.
Director Greta is depicting author Louisa May Alcott, Louisa is depicting Joe who loves to write, and on each other, they pour into themselves.
Women, this concept alone involves turbulence.
Female, writer. In some times, this was a contradictory word formation. The former is a gender that is required to be silent, while the pen held by the latter represents the right to speak and create.
To disassemble this concept is a great temptation for female creators. How much resistance and self-identity are hidden in this temptation?
1. The author or the person in the book
The original “Little Woman” can be regarded as a masterpiece for children. In many people’s middle school years, “Little Woman” is the first choice for the task of “reading an English novel and then writing after reading”.
So what’s new in this household story?
Greta changed the structure of the story.
In the original story, Qiao’s four sisters work with their mother to maintain a poor and warm life. This kind of ascetic, family-like story is not unusual in this popcorn movie.
Even Louisa herself was unwilling to write such a story.
Her personality is like Joe. She has too much energy and is unwilling to be restrained. She often pulls her skirt and runs wild in the woods. She didn’t like such a story that was enlightened and praised family values.
Luisa May Alcott
But she owed a debt, and the publisher went directly to her father, claiming that if Louisa was willing to write a story about a girl, she would also publish his book for his father. Under the pressure of both the economy and her family, she locked herself in the orchard house and began to write this story.
Luisa doesn’t have much contact with her peers other than her sisters—she has no interest in making friends, let alone writing a story that is “girly” enough.
But for her sister, she does have intimate affections and good memories. So she substituted herself into Joe and wrote her three sisters into the story.
What about movies? Unlike the previous “Miss Bird”, GrayThe tower unfolds the story of Joe growing up and getting married in a straightforward sequence. She took advantage of the ambiguous nature of the semi-autobiographical novels, so that Joe replaced Louisa himself and became the author of The Little Woman.
Joe’s running shot
Like Louisa, but also reminiscent of “Francis Ha” starring Greta
At the beginning, grown-up Joe is writing this “Little Woman”, which is different from the original book starting from Christmas when he was young. The stories in The Little Lady are both memories and creations. They blend and overlap with the “reality” in the film, and echo the real “reality”, that is, Louisa’s creation.
At the end of the original work, the independent and rebellious Joe eventually married as a man and woman. This “satisfactory” ending is unspeakable today.
Greta catches this sense of weakness. In the movie, Joe’s publisher warns her that the ending of the heroine is either dead or married, and she can only choose one. Joe is not convinced: can’t she be with anyone?
“No one will watch it.” The publisher was determined. So, Joe arranged a romantic show of love in the rain, so that the publisher enjoyed it on the spot and turned into a puddle of water, but she always maintained a fake smile-like expression.
Greta’s Joe, of course, won’t be with anyone,She just married the reader once in her novel.
Such a story also happened to Louisa. “Little Woman” was completed in two parts. After writing the first part, many young girls strongly demanded that Joe and Laurie get married.
This kind of noise made Louisa hummingly write in her diary: “It seems that marriage is the only purpose and end of a woman … I will not let them marry to please anyone!” p>
So she mischievously asked Joe to marry a professor who was very different from Laurie, Fritz Bell. As in the film, Joe jokingly lets them kiss in the rain, in line with the publisher’s imagination.
So what is Louisa really trying to write? She loves to write suspense novels, and to write freelance women.
To publish these articles, she has a masculine pseudonym, A.M.Barnard. If readers at the time were told that these bold and strange stories were written by a girl, they would probably pass out.
Because in the eyes of that generation, if a girl picks up her pen, the only thing she can do is the story of the girl finding a good home.
2. It ’s never easy for them to hold the pen
Anne Bradstree, born in 1612, poet. She wrote in the poem: “I suffer deeply from those rappers and sharp teeth, saying that my hand is more suitable for holding the needle and that I don’t deserve the poet’s pen, which is a contempt for female wisdom.”
Anne Bradstreet
But even so, when her brother-in-law took her poems to London for publication and received a warm response, she insisted that she didn’t know about publishing in advance.
Actually, she probably knows. But at that time, people did not accept women who wanted to become writers. She held the pen, but could only carry her hands on her back.
George Eliot, born in 1819, novelist. She’s not actually George Eliot, she’s Mary Ann Evans. She was worried that if she signed a feminine name, she would be determined to write only small love and small love, but she also wanted to write religion, politics, and society.
Edith Wharton, born in 1862, was the first female winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, with the “Innocent Age” that was later adapted by Martin Scorsese into a film of the same name.
As early as 15 years old, she translated and published poems by Heinrich Karl Brugsch, but the family did not want her name to appear in the newspapers, for fear of appearing in public and ruining her reputation. Borrowed the name of an acquaintance.
A long time later, she published articles under pseudonym or anonymity.
Time goes back to today. J.K. Rowling, born in 1965, is the first billion-dollar writer of Forbes.
When she was going to publish “Harry Potter”, the publisher thought that her real name, Joanna Rowling, would drive away most of the little boy readers, so she got this household name.
For a long time, female writers were “underground workers.” Can’t play as a female, all MulanJoin the army to escape prejudice or even attack.
Among them, George Sand is perhaps the most straightforward, not only known by his pen name, but also dressed in men’s clothing for social occasions. She no longer ran away, but showed grandly that she was capable enough to enter this male world. … p
Writing as a woman has long been a secretive matter. If it is already so difficult to pick up the pen, let alone how extravagant it is to splash the ink freely.
The problems Joe faced in Little Women are in full compliance with the current situation. They “gift” her pen, which can only be used to maintain the established order.
If you cannot use pen to resist this order, you can only use action. If the creation of a world with a pen is not in their opinion, then it is not their wish to be a good wife and mother.
In fact, it is they who make becoming a “woman writer” or a “mother wife” a single choice question that cannot be both, not them.
At that time, many female writers were singles, and married people may not be happy. The ending of the film “Little Woman” implies that the real, not the Joe in the novel, will not marry anyone, just like the author Louisa.
Although Joe was heartbroken when Laurie married his sister; though, she cried to her mother in the attic and tortured her alone.
But she can’t step back. No one has “admittedly” accepted no happiness, but if you embrace happiness, you run the risk of letting go of your pen. They cannot afford this price.
It’s just two harms.
3. Absurd multiple choice questions
But also because they were unwilling to accept the pain, they instantly repented.It became a heavy question: Why does this world force the two to conflict? This is ridiculous.
The films that describe them, like Little Women, never let go of such moments.
Jane Austin has very little biographical information, but only because she and Tom Levroy admired each other in an unknown way, there was “Become Jane Austin”, a semi-fictional work. Jane gave up at the last minute of her elopement with Tom.
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She can always figure out who has inherited what in her works, and those loves will not be unsustainable, just because she doesn’t have to endure the misery of poor couples. She and Tom are completely different. She was afraid that in the end, love was gone and the pen became the original sin.
In reality, Jane Austen really promised a rich gentleman’s proposal, even though it was only one night.
She repented the next morning. She couldn’t marry for love, let alone for wealth. Who is she? She can’t help but lament the “poor animal” when she sees the puppets with 11 children.
Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein, is married, but her illness, debt, and depression accompany her. She is not blameless, but the passionate shaker Percy undoubtedly exacerbated her pain.
Aly Fanning’s “Mary Shelley” provides an interpretation: Frankie Stein is the incarnation of Percy Shelley in Mary’s pen, and Mary is a monster created by Percy .
In the film, Mary handed over the manuscript of Frankenstein to Percy. Percy was excited after reading it, but only asked a little: Why wasn’t it created as an angel?
They will never give up the illusion of creating a flawless angel.
Bovova should be smart enough. She never married, and kept an open relationship with Sartre. There can be many lovers, and gender can be unlimited, but soulmate only has Sartre, embedded in each other’s soul.
She’s transparent enough, she recognizes women’s true place in the world. Contempt is hidden in details that are not easy to perceive, hidden in the aversion to menstruation, the pursuit of fat powder, and the holiness of women in myth.
But in “The Lovers of Flower God Cafe”, she clearly knows that the woman and herself are “modeled by the day after tomorrow”, but still cannot get rid of the jealousy of Sartre’s female partner.
Even when lover Olgren asked to marry her, she shook: “I thirst for his desire, even if it is a trap. I only impulsively once in my life. At my age, such an opportunity will not Here again. “
This is not someone else. It was Beauvoir who just wrote “Second Sex.” It was Beauvoir who attacked the patriarchal order. He knew the sweetness and wanted to pay. Bovova at a higher price.
She is not foolish or weak, she is just too lonely.
Of course, Beauvoir still wrote with Sartre all his life. But she was said to be wearing a ring from Olgren when she was dying.
Why can I choose only one of writing and happy love? Why can we only choose one among occupations and wives? When can they kill themselves without fear of marriage?